What does the nonbranching proposal say about splitbrain pat

What does the nonbranching proposal say about split-brain patients? Are there two people present in the body? If so, is either identical with the person who occupied the body before the operation?

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Yes. In right handed patients, the left-brain remains connected to beon and will manifest most of the subject\'s original characteristics. (Reversed in left handed patients.) At first, the right brain will manifest no personality because it is just along for the ride, as before. This will change in time.

The right brain is effectively uncontrolled by beon after the split and will be ripe for takeover by another beon that does not really belong. If that happens there will be a second personality, and conflicts.

If another beon does not take over the right brain, it will drift along for the ride, more or less manageable according to the training it gets. I\'d expect that living with a disconnected hemisphere could be like having to bring a stupid dog with you wherever you went.